Proverbs 3:27 {28}
Good News Translation
Whenever you possibly can, do good to those who need it.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

Contemporary English Version
Do all you can for everyone who deserves your help.

New American Bible
Do not withhold any goods from the owner when it is in your power to act.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and to morrow I will give to thee: when thou canst give at present.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and to morrow I will give to thee: when thou canst give at present.

withhold

Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

Galatians 6:10 Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

James 2:15,16 And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food: . . .

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

them to whom it is due

Genesis 31:29 It is in my power to return thee evil; but the God of your father said to me yesterday: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Micah 2:1 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
26Do not withhold him from doing good, who is able: if thou art able, do good thyself also. 27Say not to thy friend: Go, and come again: and to morrow I will give to thee: when thou canst give at present.28Practise not evil against thy friend, when he hath confidence in thee.…
Cross References
Romans 13:7
Render therefore to all men their dues. Tribute, to whom tribute is due: custom, to whom custom: fear, to whom fear: honour, to whom honour.

Galatians 6:10
Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

Micah 2:1
Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Proverbs 3:26
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